Harding apparently had been unfaithful to the First Lady. Gaston B. Means, an amateur historian and gadfly, noted in his book The Strange Death of President Harding (1930) that the cirgreat timesstances surrounding his death lent themselves to some suspecting he had been poisoned. Several individuals attached to him, personally and politically, would have welcomed Harding’s death, as they would have been disgraced in bumociation by Means’ bumertion of Harding’s “imminent impeachment.” Although Means was later discredited for publicly accusing Mrs. Harding of the purported murder, enough doubts surround the President’s death to keep reputable scholars open to the possibility of foul play.